On Feb 15, 2012, at 3:28 PM, Thomas Lumley wrote:
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 7:05 PM, Jeroen Ooms > wrote:
The second problem is that the spss dataformat allows to specify
'duplicate labels', whereas this is not allowed for factors.
read.spss
does not deal with this and creates a bad factor
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 7:05 PM, Jeroen Ooms wrote:
> The second problem is that the spss dataformat allows to specify
> 'duplicate labels', whereas this is not allowed for factors. read.spss
> does not deal with this and creates a bad factor
>
> x <- read.spss("http://www.stat.ucla.edu/~jeroen/s
Someone supplied me with a small SPSS datafile that caused a buffer
overflow and then a crash when reading it in R. It seems like a pretty
serious issue to me. Unfortunately I can't supply the dataset at hand
and I have a hard time reproducing it with a toy example. But I found
at least 2 issues th
